How much control, if any, does a person have over his/her destiny? Does fate already hold the answers, or is someone
faced
with decisions that will result in other choices? What happens when one has to make a decision? Is it necessary to follow through, or can it be ignored? The paper explores these questions and others that are
faced by the characters in the stories "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin and "The Guest" by Albert Camus.